Sussex Music Hub
Shaping the future of music education across Sussex.
Sussex Music Hub is a partnership of organisations, schools and communities across Brighton & Hove, East Sussex and West Sussex, that ensures every child and young person can experience the life-changing benefits of music.
Sussex Music Hub is led by a consortium of Create Music and West Sussex Music, working in partnership with over 50 organisations from across the culture and creative sectors and more than 550 schools across the region. Together, we support education, wellbeing, and future opportunities delivered through a rich, inclusive and locally responsive music education offer, with schools at the heart of delivery and young people shaping and driving our work and future direction.
Strategic oversight sits with the Sussex Music Hub Board, bringing together expertise from education, the music industry, and the cultural sector to guide development and ensure high-quality accessible provision for all.
Brighton Dome & Brighton Festival is the Hub Lead Organisation (HLO) accountable to Arts Council England for the funding.
More about music hubs
Music Hubs create opportunities for young people to explore their creativity, build confidence, and develop skills that last a lifetime by providing high quality music education within a local area.
Watch this short film to find out just some of the ways Music Hubs support our communities and the children and young people within them: Music Hubs: Bringing music to life
They are each administered by a hub lead organisation – in the case of Sussex Music Hub this is Brighton Dome & Festival Ltd– which takes on responsibility for the funding and governance of the hub. There are more than 43 music hubs across England, and each receives a grant from the Department for Education, administered through Arts Council England, designed to deliver an excellent music education for all, with partnership at its core. This is expressed via:
- a vision
- three aims
- five strategic functions
The NPME articulates a vision for music education in which:
All children and young people should be able to learn to sing, play an instrument and create music together, and have the opportunity to progress their musical interests and talent, including into a professional creative career.
Every Hub is expected to deliver against three aims as set out in the NPME:
- To support schools and other education settings to deliver high-quality music education.
- To support young people to further develop their musical interests and talent, including into employment.
- To support all children and young people to engage with a range of musical opportunities in and out of school.
Hub Lead Organisations are responsible for five strategic functions outlined in the NPME: Partnerships, Schools, Progression and musical development, Inclusion and Sustainability.
Hubs outline how they will achieve these aims and strategic functions in a Local Plan for Music Education (LPME), which partners will work collectively to design and deliver.
